Sunday, January 23, 2011

pumkin spice muffins

Ingredients:

- 1 can of pumkin (the bigger can, a quart maybe?)
- I box of spice cake mix

Directions:

- preheat oven to 375

- Mix the two together in a bowl. At first it will look like it will not mix together completely. Keep stirring. It will.

- Put in cupcake pans.

- bake in oven for however long it says on the cake box to cook. 15 minutes maybe?

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Cheesy Tomato Almond Toast

Ingredients:

  • 4 Pieces of Bread
  • 4 Slices of Tomato
  • Some shredded Mozzarella cheese
  • some sliced almonds
  • salt
  • pepper
  • Olive Oil

Preperation

  • Toast the bread – lightly preferred
  • Grease a cooking pan/tray
  • Put toast in tray
  • Put a tomato slice on each piece of toast
  • coat slice with olive oil
  • sprinkle on salt and pepper
  • cover in mozzarella cheese shreds
  • sprinkle almond slices on top
  • Put in over at 375 degrees. Bake for about 7 minutes
  • Voila!

Chickity China The Chinese Chicken Salad

Ingredients:

  • 2 packs of ramen noodles, crushed up
  • handful of sesame seeds
  • 1 cup of almond slivers
  • some butter melted – maybe 1/2 cup?
  • 2 bags of lettuce
  • some green onions chopped up – maybe 4 or 5
  • 3:1 mixture of vegetable oil and rice vinegar. So, 3/4 cup and 1/4 cup.
  • 1/2 cup white sugar (about)
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce (about)
  • 2 Tablespoons brown Sugar
  • 4 boneless chicken breasts cooked. 1/2 cubed. 1/2 shredded.

Preperation – Making The Nuts

  • Grease a cookie Sheet
  • In a small skillet, melt the butter.
  • In skillet, add ramen noodles, sesame seeds, and almond slivers, making sure to coat them with the butter.
  • Remove mixture from skillet and put in cookie sheet. Be sure to spread everything out across the sheet evenly.
  • Heat in oven at 375 degrees for about 5-7 minutes, or until they start to brown.

Preperation – Making The Sauce

  • In a small saucepan, mix the vegetable oil, rice vinegar, brown sugar, white sugar. Bring to a boil and stir to make everything liquidy. Take off of stove and cool in the fridge.
  • After cool – mix in the soy sauce slwoly while using a whisk.


Putting It All Together

  1. In a large bowl, mix the lettuce and onions together. Add the noodle/nut mixture and chicken. Finally add the sauce.
  2. Toss to coat everything in the sauce and serve.
  3. Fantastic!

Mufukin’ Good Chicken n’ Dumplin’s

INGREDIENTS

  • one whole chicken
  • Some celery chopped – 2 or 3 stalks
  • Some carrots – about 2 handfuls
  • salt, pepper, and poultry seasoning
  • 1 stick of butter
  • 1 can of cream of celery soup
  • 1 can of cream of chicken soup
  • 3 cans of biscuits – hungry jack are good
  • water – about half a pot full – 2-3 quarts

DIRECTIONS

  1. Cut up the chicken
  2. Boil water in pot – adding some salt, pepper, and poultry seasoning to the water
  3. Put chicken in the water. Boil for about 45 minutes to an hour – until the chicken falls off of the bone.
  4. Drain water from chicken. Do not throw away -save it in a bowl. You will use it shortly.
  5. Remove all bones from chicken. Shred chicken up (kinda) and put back in the pot. Throw bones away.
  6. Put water back into pot.
  7. Add carrots, celery, cream of chicken, cream of celery, and butter.
  8. reheat and bring water to a boil. Immediately reduce heat down to a simmer, and cover with a lid.
  9. Add more salt, pepper, poultry seasoning to taste.
  10. Let cook for about 20-30 minutes, or until the carrots are soft.
  11. Open biscuits. Tear into small pieces and add them, one at a time, to the pot. Stir while you add them to prevent them from stickign together or sticking to the pot.
  12. Once all biscuits are in the soup, stir, cover, and let cook for about 30 minutes.
  13. Voila!